Off Topic Lord Mayor

Thanks. £13 million a year is peanuts in terms of budgets even for local government but there are still positive things you can do for the area with it. Unfortunately, I think a fair chunk of it will go on administrative costs.

 

Correct
He’ll have to pay his staff and office costs out of that.

 

This is where the big money is…as long as he supports it against the national Reform policy…

 

Politicians,Politics,an endless argument never resolved...

None of them give two hoots nowadays,a bunch of freeloading hypocrites telling us what we want to hear whilst taking a big fat wedge and freebies aplenty.None of the lying bastards know what it's like to live on the edge of the abyss,having to carefully select what goes in their supermarket trolley and what 'luxury' item stays on the shelf this week because it's doubled in price in the last 6 months.None of them need to make the choice between putting the heating on or paying a bill...A nest of vipers wrapping themselves around us to suffocate us!!!

 

The new authority that Campbell will lead has a budget of £13m every year for the next thirty years. And several government grants that previously went direct to East Riding and Hull councils will be routed via the Mayor and Combined Authority.

 

You don’t know that, the infrastructure budgets haven’t yet been determined.

 

The amazing thing is some people think Reform are somehow different

 

Actually that’s a fair point which I missed.
Anne Handley covered the other grants at one of the hustings.
Some of them are re routed (so aren’t new money…it’s just Luke can decide how they are spent rather than the Council) but I believe some only came because there was going to be a Mayor and were on top of that.
£13m a year for 30 years guaranteed but in first year at least I seem to recall her saying it was something like £60m

 

The current government proposals for net zero may bring some money to this region, but the actual measures will not achieve their stated goals, and work out very expensive in the longer term.

 

If I’m honest I don’t know much about it, but I suspect you’re right.
I’m only saying that selfishly I’d rather we got the money than Teeside

 

For context, the neighbouring combined authority is handling around £170m this year. Some of it new money, much of it recurring annual awards.

 

It is something I know more than a bit about. Someone's getting what is actually our money back, so it may as well be us, but it really is a poor use of our money. There are far better investments that could be made with it and that will have a better impact on the environment and energy security.

 

Which is exactly why we should have had a Mayor years ago.
The money we should have had went to Teeside instead

(*I still think it should have been a Humber wide Mayor mind you but that’s a different, and defeated, debate)

 

That’s not the neighbouring authority I’m referring to, but your point stands!

 

Just to note, yes, they oppose NetZero. Surely most now agree that the NetZero drive in it's current form is madness. It's likely Labour themselves will soon change direction. However, Reform, like nearly everyone else, still support sensible moves toward new technology to provide 'cleaner' energy and protecting the environment. All in their policies

 

Some of them do have experience of that. Some of which are in our current government. It's not true that all politicians are Etonian rich boys.

 

Oh I know
It was more about the type of investment we lost out on.

 

Surely Reform have made the biggest change in policy by no longer 'championing' Brexit?

 

A glimpse of common ground?
So what IS the answer iyo?

 

I’m not passing judgement on the policy, I’m merely saying that as it stands today there are £15Bn of investment up for grabs and it is Luke’s job to make sure it happens here rather than somewhere else.
If it stops that’s fine, but as Dutch said if it’s happening we may as well try and get it invested here.